--- title: The fir-tree forests on the mountains were covered with a purple hue… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The fir-tree forests on the mountains were covered with a purple hue like the heather bloom; and where the woods terminated, and the rocks became prominent, they looked almost transparent in the rich crimson glow of the evening sky. Who acts: woods, rocks, evening sky. 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C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, rocks, evening sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:66:11 # text = The fir-tree forests on the mountains were covered with a purple hue like the heather bloom; and where the woods terminated, and the rocks became prominent, they looked almost transparent in the rich crimson glow of the evening sky. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hue hue NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 heather heather ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bloom bloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 terminated terminate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 prominent prominent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 almost almost ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 crimson crimson ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | past · passive | | the tree forests on the mountains | | | | with a purple hue like the heather bloom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with hue=Theme | | 2 | **terminate** | past | the woods | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **become** | past | the rocks | | | | | prominent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **look** | past | rocks *= rock* | | | | | in the rich crimson glow of the evening sky; transparent *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glow=Theme | | 5 | **glow** | | the evening sky | | | | | | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/12/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Conclusion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/)